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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"
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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
